Is Wired Magazine’s ‘Military Correspondent’ a Kremlin Dupe? (Part 2)
http://larussophobeexposed.blogspot.com/2008/09/la-russophobe-tries-to-rebut-wired-and.html
Here’s the link to my full rebuttal. And a quote from another post, about why this New Cold War lobby keeps rolling:
What marks the New Cold War Lobby more than anything else is an oblivious, and alarming lack of empathy for the experience of ordinary Russians in the 90s, who saw “democratization” and “privatization” as licenses for oligarchs to steal. These Beltway crusaders tend to listen only to a tiny fringe who scratch their “Putin is KGB” itch, like Garry Kasparov and Andrei Illarianov. This, in turn, leads the New Cold War lobby to overlook not only the possibility of Russia being a quiet ally in the global war against the jihadists (i.e. providing logistics for operations in Afghanistan while our “ally” Pakistan fails to secure supply lines), but also a check against the real superpower they had previously been itching to take on — China.
Of course, as we will explore in future posts why advocating a new Cold War with China, the only nation on the planet capable of directly challenging American military power, would actually force the New Cold War lobby to go against some of their own donors in corporate America. And THAT approach could spell the end of their comfortable hothouse careers. No more fat expense accounts, all expense paid “freedom promoting” junkets to Tblisi or Talinn, or other perks. Just a return to the harsh reality of a life as a hated right winger in academia, where the liberals wouldn’t touch a “neocon warmonger” like them with a ten foot pole.
For now, Russia makes for a perfect and politically correct adversary. Folks like Max Boot are going to push their New Cold War gravy train as long as they can, heedless to the consequences. Meanwhile, La Russophobe will continue to lick the financial and rhetorical crumbs from their table.
